The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom

First published in 1753, this experimental work explores the relations between history and fiction while introducing episodes of Gothic melodrama. Filled with satiric thrusts at the legal, medical, and military establishments of mid-eighteenth-century Europe, the novel reveals Smollett's capacities as a commentator on contemporary life.

About the author

TOBIAS SMOLLETT (1721-1771) was a novelist, playwright, journalist, historian, travel writer, critic, translator, editor, and compiler--an eighteenth-century man of letters in the fullest sense of the phrase.

Product details

• Authors: T. Smollett, Tobias Smollett, Tobias George Smollett, Tobias George/ Beasley Smollett
• Assisted by: Jerry Beasley (Editor), Jerry C Beasley (Editor), Jerry C. Beasley (Editor), O M Brack (Editor), O. M. Brack (Editor), O. M. Jr. Brack (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.01.2014
• EAN: 9780820346014
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4601-4
• Series: Works of Tobias Smollett; The Works of Tobias Smollett
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, Plays / Drama